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Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to order the DEA to process the applications. “We We are still working through the process and those applications remain under review,” said DEA spokeswoman Katherine Pfaff in an email Thursday. In June, Scottsdale Research Institute in Arizona asked the U.S.
However, in 2004, there was a lawsuit against the Hemp Industries Association and the DEA. Then in 2014, Obama signed the Farm Bill, which would then allow pilot programs for growing hemp, but it still wasn’t supposed to be used commercially. The program first started in 2014, and there were only 33 acres when it first started.
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